Adore God, all you His Angels: Sion heard, and was glad: and the daughters of
Juda rejoiced. -- (Ps.96. 1). The Lord hath reigned, let
the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad. V.: Glory be to the Father . . . -- Adore God, all you His
Angels . . .

COLLECT.--Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that ever pondering on reasonable things, we
may accomplish, both in words and works, that which is pleasing in
Thy sight. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee . . .

EPISTLE ¤ 1 Thess. 1. 2-10
Lesson from the Epistle of blessed Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians

[The word of God produces in the hearts of Christians the wonders of faith, hope and
charity.]

Brethren, We give thanks to God always for you all, making a rembrance of you
in our prayers without ceasing, being mindful of the work of your faith and
labor and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father:
knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election: for our
Gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much fulness, as
you know what nammer of men we have been among you
for your sakes. And you became followers of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in much tribulation, with
joy of the Holy Ghost: so that you were made a
pattern to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord,
not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in
every place your faith, which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing. For they
themselves relate of us what manner of entering
in we had unto you; and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His
Son from heaven (Whom He raised from the dead),
Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

The Gentiles shall fear Thy Name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth Thy
glory. V.: For the Lord hath built up Sion: and He shall be seen in
His glory.
Alleluia, alleluia. V.: The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice, let many islands be
glad. Alleluia.

GOSPEL ¤ Matth. 13. 31-35
 Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. Matthew.

[Jesus reveals to us "things hidden from the foundation of the world." -- Parables of the
three measures of meal and of the mustard
plant.]

At that time Jesus spoke to the multitudes this parable: The kingdom of
heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field:
which is the least indeed of all seeds but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs and becometh a
tree, so that the birds of the air come and dwell in
the branches thereof. Another parable He spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a
woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until
the whole was leavened. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables He
did not speak to them: that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the
foundation of the world.

It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all
times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father
almighty, everlasting God; Who, together with Thine only-begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one
Lord: not in the oneness of a single Person, but in
the Trinity of one substance. For what we believe by Thy revelation of Thy glory, the same do we believe of
Thy Son, the same of the Holy Ghost, without
difference or separation. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, distinction in persons,
unity in essence, and equality in majesty may be
adored. Which the Angels and Archangels, the Cherubim also and Seraphim do praise: who cease not daily to cry
out, with one voice saying:

COMMUNION ¤ Luke 5. 22

Mirabantur omnes de his quae procedebant de ore Dei.

All wondered at these things which proceeded from the mouth of God.

POSTCOMMUNION.--Being fed, O Lord, with heavenly delights, we beseech Thee, that we may ever
hunger after things by which we truly live. Through our Lord Jesus
Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth . . .